CLARKSBURG, W.Va. -- Ben Monti came up with a walk-off single to lift the Mercyhurst baseball team 10-9 victory over Wheeling University Friday afternoon. 

After Wheeling knotted the game 9-9 in the top of the ninth, Jack Elliott singled to right. After a strikeout, Josh Surowiec doubled to right to put runners on second and third. The Cardinals walked Luke Baranchak and Monti gave the Lakers the win with his single to right. 

The game see-sawed back and forth with Wheeling striking for a pair of runs in the first inning and Mercyhurst responding with RBI from Hunter Snyder and Dominic Cecere to tie the game. 

The Cardinals retook the lead in the fifth with three runs to go up 5-2. The Lakers tallied three of their own in the sixth. 

Cecere gave Mercyhurst their first lead of the day in the seventh with an RBI hit by pitch. Casimer Sobaszek extending the lead drawing a bases-loaded walk. Elliott rounded out the frame with a sacrifice fly to make the score 8-5 Lakers. 

Wheeling took advantage of a wild pitch and passed ball to push across a pair of runs in the eighth and trim the advantage to 8-7. Sobazek added a sacrifice fly in the bottom the frame to make it 9-7 and set up the ninth inning dramatics. 

Jared Katurasky picked up the win in relief going an inning and a third with one strikeout and allowing two runs. Michael McDonough went four and a third allowing five runs, four earned, on five hits with five strikeouts as the Laker starter. 

Surowiec went 5-for-6 with a run scored to lead the Laker offense. Baranchak and Elliott each notched three hits for Mercyhurst. 

The Lakers are back in action on Monday when they travel back to Frank Loria Field for a noon game with Fairmont State University.